Using Schizosaccharomyces pombe meiosis to analyze DNA recombination intermediates

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 557, Issue , 2009, Pages 235-252

  Hyppa, Randy W ^a   Smith, Gerald R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

crossover; DNA double strand breaks; Fission yeast; Holliday junctions; interhomolog; intersister; joint molecules; meiotic induction; pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; two dimensional gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

FUNGAL DNA;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEIOSIS; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 70350757714     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-527-5_15     Document Type: Article

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